Question

Is there a way to include external *.cgi-script-output into a Topic? So that we have the nice TWiki-Site together with the cgi-output [instead of|in] a Topic.

We want to include the drraw.cgi script output (a Frontend for the RRD-Tool) into a TWiki Web.
There are several Problems:

• %INCLUDE{"https://..."}% does not work with https , but we're runnging apache-ssl.
• if I start apache (in addition to apache-ssl) and include the http URL, i.e. %INCLUDE{"http://abakus/cgi-bin/twiki/drraw.cgi"}%, I will get the cgi-output included, but I will lose the nice TWiki-Framework clicking an a generated link (from the cgi).

It would be quite a job to rewrite the script to a TWiki Plugin.

Does anybody have an idea?

Thank you !

Environment

-- SusanneRuppel - 17 Aug 2004

Answer

I don't have an answer to your question but can point you to a couple of related topics: CallingScriptsFromTopics and HowToExecuteAScript.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 17 Aug 2004

Thank you for the links! And sorry: I didn't find the topics before asking (seems that I searched with the wrong buzzwords).

I just found following solution for us:

<iframe src="%SCRIPTURL%/drraw.cgi" width="98%" height="670" align="center" name="drraw"> 
Your Browser cannot handle embedded Frames. Please visit following site, to get the RRD tool output:<br /> 
<div align="center"><a href="%SCRIPTURL%/drraw.cgi"><span class="unten">RRD</a></div><br />
</iframe>

The Text-Browser people won't be happy, but it works very well for the bigger part...

-- SusanneRuppel - 18 Aug 2004